Mongol
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəl/, /ˈmɑŋˌɡoʊl/, /ˈmɔŋˌɡoʊl/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋɡəl
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ (mongqol).
The sense “person with Down syndrome” comes from the fact that people with this condition often have a prominent epicanthic fold, as most people of East Asian ethnicity do.
Noun
[edit]Mongol (plural Mongols)
- A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian.
- A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal.
- (dated, now derogatory, offensive) A person with Down's syndrome.
- Alternative form: mongol
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- A member of the nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia who invaded Europe in the 13th century.
- A member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club of California, United States.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]member of the nomadic people — see Mongolian
a person from Mongolia; a Mongolian — see Mongolian
someone with Down's syndrome
|
See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Mongol (comparative more Mongol, superlative most Mongol)
- Synonym of Mongolian.
- 1878 March–April, Hoinos, “Æsop in Mongolia”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume IX, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 118:
- THE following fables are selected from a number which a Mongol teacher dictated in his attempts to familiarise a foreigner with the language of Mongolia. It will be seen at a glance that most of them are not native to the country, but come from a laud abounding with sights and scenes unknown to Mongolia. One or two of them, though, have a very Mongol look about them, and doubtless a good many of them have adopted more or less of a Mongol dress.
- 1997, Sheila Paine, “[Uzbekistan] Shakhrisabz”, in The Golden Horde: Travels from the Himalaya to Karpathos, London: Penguin Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 145:
- An old woman with a very Mongol face, a bright Uzbek print dress and a shopping bag, got off at every stop and back on again.
- 2010, Paul D. Buell, Eugene N[ewton] Anderson, “[Juan One] Translation”, in A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era As Seen in Hu Sihui’s Yinshan Zhengyao (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series; 9), 2nd edition, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, part B (Text and Translation), footnote 62, page 287:
- This topping for Iranian bread (or its Chinese derivative shaobing) is truly unique. We know of nothing like it anywhere else. It is also very different from anything else in the YSZY. A very Mongol flavor is implied, if it is not a straight borrowing from nomadic Turks. The “Iranian cakes” are Persian bread (nan), still a staple food in Ningxia and Xinjiang. In the Chinese Islamic Restaurant, a Ningxia Hui restaurant near Los Angeles, we have eaten similar stews with their incomparable nan–style bread. This particular stew, however, is one of the YSZY’s amazing, unique, and creative blendings of Mongol, Near Eastern, and Chinese elements (cf. recipes # 21–23, etc.).
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
[edit]Mongol
- A Keram language spoken in Papua New Guinea (also known by its native name Mwakai).
References
[edit]- 1992 Webster's New World Encyclopedia. Prentice Hall
- 1970 R C H Davis A History of Medieval Europe. Longman SBN 582 48208 9. P404 et. seq.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Mongol m anim (female equivalent Mongolka)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]Mongol m (plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)
- Mongolian (person)
Luxembourgish
[edit]Noun
[edit]Mongol m (plural Mongolen, feminine Mongolin)
Related terms
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mòngōl m (Cyrillic spelling Мо̀нго̄л)
- Mongolian (person)
Declension
[edit]Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋɡəl
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋɡəl/2 syllables
- English terms borrowed from Classical Mongolian
- English terms derived from Classical Mongolian
- English terms derived from Middle Mongol
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English dated terms
- English derogatory terms
- English offensive terms
- English terms with quotations
- English adjectives
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Ethnonyms
- en:Demonyms
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech hard masculine animate nouns
- cs:Male people
- cs:Nationalities
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Ethnonyms
- fr:Nationalities
- Luxembourgish lemmas
- Luxembourgish nouns
- Luxembourgish masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Nationalities